Comments on: Toggle Twitterhttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter
Official blog of Red Sweater SoftwareThu, 08 Dec 2016 07:12:33 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Eric Dobsonhttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155992
Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:03:31 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155992Jason: I agree with Daniel, it definitely isn’t a big deal for everyone, and you’re not missing anything. For me, I often have so many apps open that the Cmd + Tab method could take a half-dozen keystrokes. I could use LaunchBar and type 3 keystrokes, or I can use this script and only type 1. With muscle memory it will happen instantly without thought or distraction. Not a huge deal, but when I find dozens of such shortcuts and they add up to a couple hundred small tasks each day, it makes a difference.
]]>By: Daniel Jalkuthttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155987
Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:27:53 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155987Hi Jason – I find it much easier on my brain to think of things like this as toggles. Having to use different keystrokes, possibly getting lost in an unexpected app, these are not things I like to deal with.

I guess you either see the value or you don’t. I don’t think you’re missing anything, though. If the Cmd-H and Cmd-Tab method works as effortlessly for you, then there’s certainly no benefit for you in using the script. (Aside from the fact that the script will also automatically launch the first Twitter app in the list if it’s not already running).

]]>By: Jasonhttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155986
Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:06:25 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155986I don’t understand this. There’s a built in “Hide window” shortcut in OSX, which is (by default) Command-h. Then all you have to do is Command-Tab to it to get it back.

The one thing this script saves you is not having to command-tab however many times you have running applications for. But what else is more compelling about this that I’m not understanding?

]]>By: David Levinehttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155669
Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:32:58 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155669Thanks for the post. I never thought about setting the global shortcut to hide and show the app. I use Twitter for Mac and I just set the shortcut to Cmd-Ctrl-T. It makes sense.
]]>By: Chuckyhttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155639
Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:44:38 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155639“Just another reason I really need to get into AppleScript.”

Very mild learning curve. The beauty of the “human language” metaphor AS uses is that it makes it quite easy to take other folks’ code samples, and pretty much understand what they’re doing right off the bat.

Then you can modify them for yourself, and before you know it, you are semi-proficient in AS.

The killer app of AS is that it’s readable.

Coders hate the language, but non-coding power users find much to use there.

]]>By: Ron Lhttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155626
Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:02:30 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155626Thanks Daniel, that works perfectly.
]]>By: Eric Dobsonhttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155623
Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:47:17 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155623Just another reason I really need to get into AppleScript. I’ll definitely be adapting this to work with other application groups. Thanks for another helpful post!

-Eric

]]>By: Daniel Jalkuthttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155622
Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:42:04 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155622Hi Ron – I put all my custom scripts in ~/Library/Scripts, and sort of arbitrarily organize them into folders by theme. For example I have a folder called “Application Shortuts” which is for all the scripts I have that simply open a specific app (Cmd-Opt-Shift-W for Safari, for example). I put this Twitter toggler in that folder.
]]>By: Ron Lhttps://red-sweater.com/blog/1646/toggle-twitter/comment-page-1#comment-155621
Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:36:41 +0000http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=1646#comment-155621Daniel

Out of curiosity, what folder do you put the script in? There are several options, and I go back and forth on which one should be used for system-wide scripts via FastScripts.